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The 
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the  Shop  and  Workers 
at  Gaet  Hurora,  IV,  Y^ 

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The   "R^oycroft  Shop 
GREETING 


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and  Things — making  them  as  good  as 
they  can.  The  paper  on  which  Roycroft 
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Sonnet  Sequence  by  Dante 
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peare," although  not  equal  to  our  "  Sonnets 
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THE  ESSAY  ON  WALT  WHITMAN:  By 

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Ruskin  wrote  this  tale  for  a  beautiful  little  girl 
— and  you  know  who  this  little  girl  was  !  All 
written  in  love  and  therefore  vital,  potent — 
charged  with  meaning.  The  book-making  part 
was  a  labor  of  love,  too.  Frontispiece  photo- 
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paper. 

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THE  LAST  RIDE:  By  Robert  Browning.^ 
Each  stanza  enclosed  in  a  separate  specially 

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Others. 

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parent to  us — we  know  when  we  come  tardy 
off  quite  as  well  as  the  most  exacting  critic. 
Still  we  are  not  cast  down ;  and  although  the 
Ideal  continually  recedes,  yet  we  know  that 
we  have  made  better  books  this  year  than  last ; 
and  next  year  we  propose  to  make  better  books 
than  we  have  this.  But  this  book,  "  The  Last 
Ride,"  is  an  approach  to  the  Ideal ;  it  has  the 
flavor  of  the  Missal,  and  bears  on  every  page 
and  part  the  apparent  touch  of  consecrated  la- 
bor. The  Young  People  who  made  this  book 
found  much  joy  in  their  work,  and  this  joy 
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will  be  the  possession  of  each  one  of  the  Elect 
who  owns  a  copy.  And  yet  it  is  not  the  Perfect 
Book! 


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with  a  sincere  and  gracious  study  of  the  poem 
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ooze  calf,  7.50 

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Our  book  is  not  equal  to  the  William  Morris 
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The  title  page,  initials  and  ornaments  used  in 
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keep-sakes,  and  there  being  a  few  over  we  have  extra- 
illustrated  them.  The  book  contains  sixteen  photo- 
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The  Book  of  Ecclesiastes. 

Art  and  Life. 

On  Going  to  Church. 

The  Legacy. 

Ruskin-Turner. 

Upland  Pastures. 

Love  Ballads  of  the  XVIth  Century. 

In  the  Track  of  the  Book- Worm. 

The  Book  of  Job. 

Sesame  and  Lilies. 

The  Deserted  Village. 

Sonnets  from  the  Portuguese. 

Love-Letters  of  a  Musician. 

In  Memoriam. 

Hand  and  Brain. 

As  It  Seems  to  Me. 


Confessions  of  an  Opium  Eater. 

A  Dream  of  John  Ball. 

Uipsy  Chanty. 

Essays  of  Elia. 

A   Persian  Pearl. 

Philistine  Sermons, 

The  Rubaiyat. 

Ballads  of  a  Book-Worm. 

Ancient  Mariner. 

Essay  on  Friendship. 

Shakespeare's  Sonnets. 

Aucassin  and  Nicolete. 

Time  and  Chance,  2  volumes. 

Intellectual  Life. 

AH  Baba. 

Che  Roycrof  tcro  are  daily  in  receipt  of  letters 
reading  tbuo: 

"  Please  mail  cat.,  naming  best  discount  to  dealers." 
And  so  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  here  say  that  the  Roy- 
crofters  do  not  give  discounts  to  any  one,  all  their 
wares  being  strictly  net.  They  do  not  sell  to  dealers. 
The  few  books  made  by  the  Roycrofters  are  quickly 
taken  by  Book-Lovers,  and  if  you  want  Roycroft 
books  you  have  to  write  direct  to  East  Aurora  for  them. 
East  Aurora  is  now  a  money-order  postofifice,  and  the 
place  is  down  on  the  map,  Mr.  Howells  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding.  The  Roycrofters  are  always  glad  to 
send  their  books  to  the  Faithful  "  on  suspicion  " — a 
postal  card  will  do  it. 
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Tho    Pf'd    0-1  r> 


Che  CClork  of  the  Roy^fof ters. 

From  the  New  York  Independent. 


A  LL  of  our  wisest  moves  are 
^^  accidents,  and  every  good 
thing  began  as  something  else. 
The  Roycroft  Shop  is  an  accident, 
resulting  from  a  joke.  The  par- 
ticular joke  was  to  print  a  pam- 
phlet or  two,  and  say  a  few  things 
about  people  the  author  did  not 
especially  admire.  Not  that  these 
people  were  his  enemies — not  at 
all — no  one  has  any  sure-enough 
enemies.  This  world  is  too  busy 
a  place  for  any  one  to  sit  down 
and  hate  you.  You  may  get  in  the 
way  of  folks,  and  then  they  will 
jostle  you,  &  possibly  walk  over 
you,  but  they  are  not  your  ene- 
mies on  that  account. 
The  people  the  author  did  not  es- 
pecially admire  were  magazine 
publishers  and  newspaper  man- 
aging editors.  The  reason  the  au- 
thor did  not  like  these  people  was 
because  they  respectfully  de- 
clined his  MS.,  and  sent  back  his 
verses  with  great  regularity. 
And  so  in  May,  1895,  the  author 
decided  to  print  a  brownie  pam- 
phlet— ♦'  chipmunk  magazine  " — 
at  his  own  expense,  and  in  this 
magazine  make  ironical  remarks. 


So  he  wrote  his  magazine  &  had 
it  printed  at  the  office  of  the  East 
Aurora  "  Weekly  Blizzard."  The 
"Blizzard"  is  a  nice  patent-in- 
side paper,  eminently  respectable, 
and  there  is  no  wish  to  reflect  on 
it,  or  its  genial  editor ;  but  the  ed- 
itor of  the  "  Blizzard  "  not  being 
especially  interested  in  the  art 
preservative,  the  quality  of  the 
printing  did  not  suit  the  finicky 
tastes  of  the  author. 
So  therefore,  when  the  author, 
slightly  inflated  by  the  success  of 
the  first  number  of  his  pamphlet, 
wanted  to  get  out  another  issue, 
he  got  desperate  and  just  up  and 
bought  a  little  printing  outfit  of 
his  own.  He  set  up  his  amateur 
shop  on  the  barn  floor;  hired  a  boy 
and  went  at  it.  All  this  was  quite 
a  natural  move,  for  in  his  boyhood 
the  author  had  been  a  printer's 
devil  and  he  had  never  entirely 
recovered.  So  the  boy  and  the 
author  worked,  or  played  possibly 
is  the  better  word,  at  printing. 
But  it  took  more  time  than  the 
author  thought,  and  as  be  had 
other  work  to  do,  the  boy  brought 
bis  big  brother  to  help. 

II 


Then  there  was  n't  quite  enough 
work  to  keep  the  boys  busy,  and 
as  the  boys  should  be  kept  busy 
(especially  when  you  pay  them 
three  dollars  a  week),  the  author 
decided  to  print  a  book. 
The  question  then  arose,  how 
should  this  book  be  printed,  and 
the  answer  was,  "  Print  it  as  well 
as  you  possibly  can !  "  It  was  n't 
for  sale,  anyway,  did  n't  have  to 
be  done  Saturday  night,  and  the 
author  had  no  one  to  please  but 
himself. 

In  1892  the  author  had  visited  the 
Kelmscott  Press  at  Hammer- 
smith &  there  met  William  Mor- 
ris. In  fact  be  had  been  exposed, 
and  caught  it.  Good  things  are 
catching  as  well  as  bad. 
Morris  was  a  man  of  marvelous 
power.  He  was  frank,  bold,  gruff, 
towsled,  and  dressed  in  overalls 
and  blouse  like  a  workingman. 
But  a  very  little  conversation  with 
the  man  proved  to  you  that  his 
seeming  gruffness  came  from  his 
being  completely  absorbed  in  his 
work.  When  he  closed  in  on  an 
idea  he  had  no  time  nor  thought 
for  anything  else.  He  was  master 
of  six  distinct  trades.  He  gloried 
in  doing  things  with  bis  hands. 
To  cut  things  out  and  piece  them 

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together  in  a  beautiful  and  useful 
shape  was  his  recreation.  To 
carve  in  wood,  weave  bright 
strands  of  silk  into  cloth,  hammer 
iron  into  shape,  to  paint  pictures 
and  draw  forms,  was  to  him  a  de- 
light. And  there  was  only  one 
thing  that  gave  William  Morris 
more  joy  than  to  do  things  with 
his  hands,  and  that  was  to  show 
others  how  to  do  things  with  their 
hands.  William  Morris  always 
made  things  as  well  as  he  could. 
His  motto  was,  "  Not  how  cheap, 
but  how  good." 

And  so  when  the  farmer-author 
at  the  village  of  East  Aurora,  N. 
Y.,  bethought  him  to  make  a 
book,  he  said  in  a  burst  of  enthu- 
siasm, "  Why,  we  '11  make  it  like 
a  William  Morris  book  !  " 
So  the  book  was  made — six  hun- 
dred copies  on  the  finest  English 
hand-made  paper — antique  type, 
wide  margins  and  all  that,  and  to 
the  great  surprise  of  all  concerned 
the  book  sold  and  the  edition  was 
soon  gone,  although  the  work  was 
crude  and  lacking  in  many  ways. 
But  knowing  where  it  was  wrong 
there  was  a  great  desire  to  make 
another  book  and  make  it  better. 
So  a  second  book  was  begun  that 
was  to  be  an  inprovement  on  the 


All    B  a  b  a    S- 


first  and  a  certain  Good  Woman 
would  illumine  the  initials  herself, 
as  the  nuns  used  to  do,  centuries 
ago.  An  old  missal  was  unearthed 
from  the  bottom  of  a  chest  where 
it  lay  wrapped  in  chamois,  and 
the  work  of  the  early  Venetians 
was  closely  studied. 
The  Good  Woman  began  to  illu- 
mine, and  she  soon  found  she  had 
a  job  on  hand.  It  was  slow  work. 
Minnie  Gardner,the  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  old  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gardner, 
dropped  in  one  day  and  said,  "  Let 
me  try  that !  "  Then  she  came  the 
next  day,  and  liked  the  work,  for 
we  like  anything  we  can  do  well. 
Then  Minnie  knew  another  girl 
who  had  nothing  to  do,  and  there 
was  a  sick  mother  to  support, 
and  so  this  girl  was  sent  for  to 
come  and  help. 

In  the  meantime  it  was  suggested 
that  the  boys  in  the  bam  hurry 
things  up  a  bit,  and  get  the  other 
forms  of  the  book  ready  to  illu- 
mine. Then,  besides,  orders  were 
coming  in  for  the  volume. 
So  two  more  boys  were  hired,  and 
Ali  Baba,  the  faithful  old  horse 
trainer,  tried  his  hand  at  the  press, 
too,  and  relieved  the  tedium  by 
many  impromptu  pleasantries. 
But  now  the  business  bad  grown 


until  it  was  thought  best  to  build 
a  special  building,  so  the  work 
could  all  be  done  under  one  roof. 
So  a  little  building  was  planned, 
&  built  alongside  of  the  author's 
house.  This  was  to  be  the  "  Shop," 
and  it  was  built  like  an  old 
English  chapel.  To  be  exact,  the 
old  church  at  Grasmere,  where 
Wordsworth  lies  buried,  was  tak- 
en as  a  model.  It  was  only  a  little 
shop,  but  it  was  thought  big 
enough,  for  there  were  only  a  doz- 
en of  the  workers,  anyway,  and 
probably  would  never  be  any 
more.  This  shop  was  built  with  an 
idea  to  comfort  and  convenience. 
It  must  be  neat  and  simple.  Par- 
ticular attention  was  paid  to  light, 
ventilation  &  sanitary  appliances. 
The  place  looked  like  a  church, 
but  that  was  all  right,  for  good 
work  and  religion  should  never 
be  so  far  apart.  The  girls  brought 
birds  and  flowers,  and  the  boys 
framed  pictures  for  the  walls ; 
there  were  cases  for  books,  a  big 
fireplace,  &  in  one  corner  a  piano. 
The  place  was  called  the  Roycroft 
Shop,  because  there  was  a  man 
by  the  name  of  Roycroft  printed 
beautiful  books  in  England  two 
hundred  years  ago.  Then  Roycroft 
is  a  pretty  word,  anyway ;   Roy 

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means  king,  A  croft  meana  home 
or  rest— Roycroft— King's  Rest. 
Up  to  this  time  the  books  had 
been  sent  to  Buffalo  to  be  bound. 
But  the  man  in  Buffalo  could  not 
bind  books  any  more  than  the 
"  Blizzard  "  man  could  print,  and 
the  fact  was  faced  that  the  Roy- 
cioflers  must  bind  their  own 
books  ;  but  to  bind  books  is  an  art. 
Then  it  was  that  after  much 
search  a  Leipsic  bookbinder  was 
found — a  man  who  had  spent  sev- 
en years  learning  his  trade,  and 
had  now  been  forced  into  a  big 
shop  where  he  was  only  a  spoke 
in  a  wheel.  It  was  a  great  joy  to 
the  Roycrofters  to  find  this  man  ; 
and  it  was  a  great  joy  to  this  man 
to  have  the  Roycrofters  find  him. 
He  set  to  work  to  bind  books  with 
his  own  hands,  at  a  bench  with 
no  machinery  but  his  hand-tools. 
There  were  two  girls  working  at 
illuminating  that  found  the  work 
difficult,  and  so  they  were  allowed 
to  help  the  bookbinder  ;  for  it  is 
against  Roycroft  ideals  to  send 
any  one  away  who  really  wants 
to  work — if  they  can't  do  one 
thing  well,  let  them  try  some- 
thing else. 

So   the  girls    helped  the  binder, 
and  the  binder  helped  the  girls. 

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And  the  bookbmding  seemed  to 
be  going  to  the  front. 
People  liked  Roycroft  work  ;  or- 
ders came,  and  the  little  man  from 
Leipsic  began  to  work  miracles 
in  Levant.  These  bindings  ran  in 
price  from  ten  to  one  hundred 
dollars,  but  people  wanted  them. 
More  girls  were  hired  &  boys,  too. 
A  wing  was  put  on  the  shop  for  a 
bindery. 

But  what  's  the  use  of  tiring 
good  people  with  details  ?  The 
Roycroft  Shop  now  employs  one 
hundred  and  seventy-five  people. 
These  people  live  in  the  village, 
or  are  farmers'  boys  and  girls  who 
live  within  a  few  miles  of  town. 
For  the  most  part  the  workers  are 
plain  folks  who  have  never  trav- 
eled, nor  had  the  advantages  'of 
literary  or  artistic  associations. 
Some  have  had  trouble  at  school 
and  been  expelled,  others  are  said 
to  be  deficient  mentally  and  mor- 
ally, and  some  possibly  have  had 
their  names  written  in  peniten- 
tiary commitment  papers — what 
boots  it  ? 

Have  you  never  known  the  grat- 
itude and  affection  of  a  proscribed 
person  ?  Then  you  have  never 
known  what  gratitude  and  loyalty 
and  love  are. 


The  Roycroft  asks  its  applicants 
for  no  letter  of  recommendation 
or  certificate  of  character. 
It  must  not  be  imagined,  how- 
ever, that  the  Roycroft  Shop  is  a 
reform  school,  or  in  any  sense  a 
philanthropic  institution.  It  is 
simply  a  business  venture  that 
gives  employment  to  the  people 
who  live  in  the  village  of  East 
Aurora.  Those  who  have  nothing 
else  to  do,  or  who  are  not  wanted 
elsewhere,  gravitate  to  the  Shop, 
and  there  they  are  given  every 
opportunity  to  develop  their  en- 
ergies. 

In  order  to  get  the  best  possible 
results  the  management  deems  it 
good  policy  to  surround  the  work- 
ers with  an  air  of  art  and  refine- 
ment, and  to  infuse  into  the  work 
as  much  good  cheer  as  possible. 
There  are  no  bosses  &  no  orders. 
There  are  requests  and  sugges- 
tions, but  the  intent  is  to  put  each 
worker  on  his  honor,  and  to  let 
him  get  all  the  fun  out  of  his 
work  that  is  possible. 
The  curse  of  the  world  is  joyless 
labor. 

Art   is   the   expression  of  man's 
joy  in  his  work. 

And  to  that  end  there  must  be  res- 
pites and  occasional  changes  of 


employment.  Hence  the  Roy- 
crofters  have  a  fifteen  minute  re- 
cess in  the  middle  of  the  forenoon 
and  the  same  in  the  afternoon  ; 
an  hour  for  lunch  ;  outdoor  tasks 
in  way  of  erecting  new  buildings 
to  which  the  boys  all  turn  from 
time  to  time.  Then  in  the  Shop 
are  bathrooms,  musical  instru- 
ments, a  well  assorted  library,  & 
gymnastic  apparatus.  The  doors 
are  never  locked,  and  each  Roy- 
crofter  is  made  to  feel  that  it  is 
not  only  a  place  of  work,  but  also 
a  place  of  rest  and  recreation. 
Further,  it  is  well  understood  that 
no  one  will  be  "laid  off"  or  dis- 
charged who  does  his  best. 
The  Roycrofters  set  any  young 
man  or  woman  to  work  who  lives 
in  the  village  who  applies.  Be- 
sides the  weekly  wages  there  is  a 
distribution  of  profits  at  Christ- 
mas time,  where  prizes  are  given 
out  for  good  behavior,  marked 
ability  in  doing  work,  and  dispo- 
sition to  help  others. 
The  workers  are  mostly  boys  and 
girls,  but  there  are  a  few  who  are 
over  seventy  years  young,  and  a 
man  of  eighty  who  draws  a  sal- 
ary in  consideration  of  his  very 
assiduous  boycott  of  the  East 
Aurora  barber. 

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There  is  a  semi-monthly  concert, 
when  only  Koycroft  talent  takes 
part  ;  occasional  lectures  on  art 
and  literature,  a  reading  club, 
night  classes,  free  for  all,  in  char- 
coal sketching  and  clay  modeling. 
A  phalanstery  is  in  process  of 
erection,  where  a  free  noonday 
hot  meal  will  be  supplied  to  every 
worker,  and  where  half  a  dozen 
families  that  are  directly  con- 
nected with  the  Roycroft  will 
take  their  meals.  This  building 
will  contain  a  dormitory  for  men, 
and  rooms  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  visitors.  The  kitchen  will 
be  in  charge  of  a  skilled  person 
who  can  make  it  a  scientific  ob- 
ject lesson  in  the  line  of  hygiene 
and  economics. 

There  is  also  an  Assembly  Room, 
where  each  morning  there  will  be 
a  fifteen  minutes'  devotional  ex- 
ercise. This  "  service  "  is  to  con- 
sist of,  say,  reading  from  John 
Ruskin,  a  hymn,  five  minute  ad- 
dresses, and  closing  with  a  silent 
invocation.  Such  an  exercise 
would  be  perfectly  acceptable  to 
all,  and  would  tend  to  prepare  the 
mind  for  the  duties  of  the  day,  the 
intent  being  that  labor  shall  be 
regarded  as  a  consecration  to  the 
Good,  or,  if  you  please,  to  God. 

z6 


The  Roycroft  work  now  include* 

bookmaking,  in  all  its  depart- 
ments ;  making  of  tables,  chairs 
and  desks  ;  ornamental  iron  work 
and  the  making  of  art  pottery  is 
just  assuming  shape.  Each  of 
the  departments  has  evolved  in  a 
very  modest  way,  simply  by 
there  being  some  one  who  could 
not  do  this  so  well  as  be  could  do 
that — so  he  was  allowed  to  do 
what  he  could. 

Socialistic  experiments  have  us- 
ually failed  through  an  attempt 
to  start  a  full-fledged  institution. 
All  strong  concerns  are  those  that 
began  in  a  small  way,  and  grew 
because  they  could  not  help  it, 
just  as  boys  grow.  Violence  of 
direction  is  fatal  to  success,  and 
too  much  anxiety  to  succeed  leads 
straight  to  failure.  A  ♦'  commune" 
that  begins  with  a  hundred  peo- 
ple will  surely  break  very  shortly 
through  its  own  weight ;  but  a  co- 
operative concern  that  starts  with 
two,  and  then  grows  to  one  hun- 
dred or  five  hundred,  taking  in 
new  people  as  their  services  are 
required,  becomes  an  amalgama- 
tion. It  is  a  collection  of  strong 
people,  because  no  man  or  woman 
is  strong  unless  he  can  do  some- 
thing that  is  useful  to  other  folks. 


0  .-  a 


Weak  people  are  those  who  are 
not  useful.  If  you  are  going  to 
build  a  strong  tower  you  add  stone 
by  stone  and  give  your  tnortar 
time  to  set. 

The  Roycroft  experiment  has 
taught  its  founders  several  les- 
sons, some  of  which  might  be 
named  as  follows : 

1.  As  the  quest  is  more  than  the 
achievement,  so  is  the  making  of 
the  thing  more  than  the  owning  it, 

2.  All  young  people  like  to  make 
things  with  their  hands,  &  when 
they  discover  they  can  do  some- 
thing really  useful,  they  are  very 
happy. 

3.  No  one  knows  what  he  can  do 
until  he  tries.  Some  of  the  most 
skilled  workers  at  the  Roycroft 
declared  they  had  no  aptitude  for 
certain  work,  but  beginning  at 
the  simple  they  worked  gradually 
up  to  the  complex  without  know- 
ing it. 

4.  "  Bad  people  "  are  good  people 
who  have  misdirected  their  en- 
ergies. 

5.  The  mad  rage  of  manufactur- 
ers in  America  to  make  things 
cheap    has    to   a   degree   been    a 


mistake.  There  are  a  great  many 
people  who  want  things  beautiful, 
substantial  and  unique,  and  who 
will  pay  the  price. 
6.  Froebel  theories  and  kinder- 
garten methods  carried  into  man- 
hood and  applied  to  manufactur- 
ing is  very  good  policy. 
The  question  that  is  often  asked, 
is,  "  Why  did  you  locate  in  East 
Aurora  ?  "  &  the  answer  is,  •'  We 
did  n't — it  just  happened  !  "  East 
Aurora  is  in  no  wise  peculiar — 
there  are  thirty  such  towns  no 
better  and  no  worse  on  the  New 
York  Central  between  Albany  and 
Buffalo.  There  was  no  wealth  in 
East  Aurora,  nor  was  there  an 
"  art  impulse  " — far  from  it.  There 
was  hoodlumism,  which  always 
exists  where  there  is  idleness,  and 
taverns  that  sold  hard  cider.  The 
Roycroft  Shop  simply  gave  the 
idle  element  an  opportunity  to  go 
to  work  making  beautiful  things 
for  people  in  New  York,  Chicago, 
and  St.  Louis,  who  wanted  these 
things  ;  and  to  get  the  work  well 
done  the  management  unlimbered 
the  Golden  Rule. 


The  Roycrofters  will  gladly  send  you  any  of 
their  books  on  approval — a  postal  will  do  it. 

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folho  aiho 

By  Lindsay  Denison 

TN  the  town  of  East  Aurora, 
*  seventeen  miles  from  Buffalo, 
there  is  a  merry  and  prosperous 
community  who  call  themselves 
Roycrofters.  Their  object  in  life 
is  to  make  beautiful  things  and  to 
have  a  good  time  with  the  rest  of 
the  world.  Their  leader,  Elbert 
Hubbard,  wears  his  hair  long,  not 
because  he  thinks  it  is  poetic  or  a 
badge  of  genius  to  do  so,  but  be- 
cause most  folks  wear  their  hair 
short.  He  has  made  himself  known 
at  a  great  distance  from  East  Au- 
rora during  the  last  ten  years  by 
his  writings  and  his  lively  and 
independent  little  magazine,  The 
PHILISTINE,  which  is  devoted 
to  letting  the  world  know  what 
Elbert  Hubbard  thinks  of  it. 
Hubbard  does  not  take  himself 
so  seriously  as  most  social  re- 
formers are  apt  to  take  them- 
selves and  he  is  not  ashamed  be- 
cause his  philanthropy  is  profit- 
able. 

It  would  be  risking  great  inaccur- 
acy to  put  a  finger  on  any  one  of 
a  census  list  of  American  occu- 
pations and  say  "  Elbert  Hubbard 
never  did  that." 

i8 


Do  Chingo* 

in  the  New  York  Sun. 

The  boss  Roycrofter  is  now  forty- 
two  years  old.  He  has  an  ath- 
letic frame  and  looks  somewhat 
younger  than  his  years.  Wearing 
his  hair  as  he  does,  he  looks  not 
unlike  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  ex- 
cept that  his  hair  is  black.  He 
talks  as  he  writes,  in  slang  when 
it  pleases  him,  and  at  another 
time  in  discourse  saturated  with 
art  and  letters.  Since  it  became 
apparent  that  Hubbard  was  ac- 
complishing in  this  country  a 
great  many  things  that  William 
Morris  did  in  England,  a  great 
many  well-known  men  and  wom- 
en in  this  country  and  abroad 
have  entered  into  correspondence 
with  him  and  have  tried  to  do 
him  honor  and  have  sought  his 
company  and  counsel. 
It  was  Elbert  Hubbard's  over- 
powering desire  to  heap  scorn, 
ridicule  and  even  abuse  upon  all 
who  seemed  to  be  shams  &  hyp- 
ocrites that  gave  the  Roycroft 
enterprise  its  beginning.  Hub- 
bard visited  William  Morris  in 
1892.  What  he  saw  on  that  visit 
impressed  him,  be  says,  more 
than  any  other  thing  had  ever 


bL_.eronie   of  E.Aurora. 


done.  His  bead  was  full  of  Wil- 
liam Morris's  ideas  after  that. 
He  did  not  see  how  to  put  any  of 
them  into  practice  in  this  coun- 
try, although  he  desired  very 
much  to  do  so.  In  the  spring  of 
1895  he  joined  one  or  two  friends 
in  Buffalo  in  a  plan  to  issue  two 
or  three  pamphlets  attacking  cer- 
tain publications  and  their  edi- 
tors, and  other  individuals  who 
had  roused  his  whimsical  wrath. 
The  plan  at  first  was  that  the  day 
of  the  pamphleteer  should  be  re- 
vived. The  cold,  practical  busi- 
ness sense  with  which  Hubbard 
was  endowed  took  note  of  the 
fact  that  it  would  cost  at  least 
one  cent  each  to  send  pamphlets 
through  the  mails  ;  whereas  if  the 
pamphlet  was  a  number  of  a 
magazine,  the  Government  would 
distribute  it  for  one  cent  a  pound. 
The  PHILISTINE  was  started 
as  a  magazine  with  the  definite 
intention  on  the  part  of  its  pub- 
lishers that  they  would  forget  to 
issue  more  than  two  or  three 
numbers.  They  were  very  sure 
they  would  not  issue  more  than 
three.  These  three  were  printed 
and  it  was  apparent  that  the  Ish- 
maelitish  war  cry  of  the  PHILIS- 
TINE had  fallen   pleasantly   on 


many  ears.  Hubbard  wanted  to 
publish  more  PHILISTINES. 
Those  associated  with  him  in 
his  original  idea  said  that  the 
joke  had  gone  far  enough. 
Hubbard  shook  them  off  and  as- 
sumed the  whole  load.  The  first 
numbers  had  been  printed  by  the 
"WeeklyBlizzard,"East  Aurora's 
newspaper.  Hubbard  bought  a 
hand  press  and  a  lot  of  type.  He 
put  them  in  his  barn  and  hired  a 
man  to  help.  The  two  of  them  set 
up  and  printed  the  PHILIS- 
TINE. The  circulation  grew  by 
leaps  and  bounds.  Soon  two  as- 
sistants were  needed.  In  the  pos- 
session of  his  own  printing  shop, 
Hubbard  saw  an  opportunity  at 
last  to  put  the  William  Morris 
idea  into  practice. He  set  up  "  The 
Song  of  Songs,  which  is  Solo- 
mon's "  more  for  his  own  aes- 
thetic entertainment  than  with 
any  hope  of  material  gain.  He 
printed  it  on  his  hand  press, 
working  the  great  lever  arm  him- 
self, once  for  each  impression. 
He  used  handmade  paper  and  ar- 
ranged the  margins,  type  and  in- 
itials as  it  seemed  to  him  in  har- 
mony with  the  spirit  of  the  song. 
To  his  delight  the  edition,  which 
was  quite  small,  was  immediate- 

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ly  exhausted.  One  or  two  simi- 
lar experiences  convinced  the 
leader  of  the  Philistines  that 
the  market  for  the  high-priced 
things  is  understocked.  Since 
then  thirty  books  have  been  is- 
sued from  the  Roycroft  Press, 
every  one  of  them  with  an  indi- 
viduality of  its  own.  Ths  highest 
achievement  of  the  Roycrofters 
has  been  the  preparation  of  an 
edition  of  twelve  copies  of  the 
Sonnets  of  Shakspeare, printed  on 
real  vellum,  all  bound  differently 
in  crushed  Levant,  hand  tooled, 
and  illuminated  in  different  de- 
signs. The  price  of  these  was 
set  at  $ioo  each.  The  entire  edi- 
tion has  been  subscribed  for. 
With  the  increasing  demand  for 
well-made, beautiful  and  individ- 
ual books  it  was  possible  to  make 
the  work  of  the  shop  more  and 
more  elaborate.  The  Roycrofters 
— as  soon  as  Hubbard  had  asso- 
ciated two  or  three  workers  with 
himself  he  insisted  that  the  shop 
was  no  longer  Elbert  Hubbard's, 
but  the  Roycrofters  —  and  he 
shared  the  profits  with  them — 
built  a  shop,  an  unpretentious 
little  frame  structure.  The  inside 
was  planned  like  a  simple  chapel, 
with  bare  rafters  above  and  a 
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great  open  fireplace  built  into 
one  side  of  the  room.  The  print- 
ing presses — there  were  two  or 
three  by  this  time — were  put  in 
the  basement.  A  few  long  tables 
placed  about  the  main  floor  suf- 
ficed for  the  binders  and  illum- 
inators. Fra  Elbertus  had  a  desk 
in  one  corner  &  the  Bursar's  was 
near  by.  The  little  room  soon 
became  overcrowded.  Additions 
were  made — all  of  them  along 
simple  lines  of  architecture,  but 
they  have  not  relieved  the  crowd- 
ing of  the  workers. 
In  the  room  which  is  now  occu- 
pied by  the  illuminators  there  is 
a  big  open  fireplace  and  chimney 
built  with  field-stones,  "  hard 
heads  "  Erie  county  farmers  call 
them.  They  look  all  alike  in  the 
field — cold,  hard,  gray.  But  split 
and  shaped,  as  Hubbard  says, 
"  by  loving  strokes  of  the  sixteen 
pound  hammer,"  they  disclosed 
the  warmest  of  under-tones 
from  orange  to  purple,  each 
somehow  in  harmony  withall  the 
others.  They  were  so  beautiful 
in  the  fireplace  that  it  seemed 
well  to  make  a  whole  building 
of  them.  Hubbard  went  abroad 
among  the  farmers  offering  $i  a 
load  for  bard-heads  delivered  on 


In    the   Bindery. 


his  empty  lot  near  the  shop.  The 
farmers  tapped  their  heads  sig- 
nificantly, grinned  at  one  another 
and  put  in  their  spare  hours 
hauling  stones  from  their  cab- 
bage fields  to  Hubbard.  Fifteen 
hundred  loads  came  in  and  then 
the  farmers  notified  Hubbard 
that  if  he  wanted  any  more  stones 
he  would  have  to  pay  for  them. 
The  only  hard-heads  there  were 
within  five  miles  of  East  Aurora 
were  those  piled  up  in  front  of 
the  Roycroft  shop.  The  farmers 
had  cleared  their  own  farms,  and 
had  been  paid  for  doing  it.  Hub- 
bard had  enough  stone  to  build 
three  buildings.  One  of  them  is 
finished  now,  and  another  still 
larger  in  process.  The  Roycroft- 
ers  build  as  the  painter  paints  or 
the  poet  writes.  They  rub  out 
and  do  over  that  which  does  not 
please  them.  The  plans  of  the 
building  change  between  every 
rising  of  the  sun  and  the  going 
down  of  the  same.  Such  conduct 
would  drive  any  other  builder  to 
distraction.  Roycrofters  are  their 
own  builders.  When  the  printers 
are  out  of  copy  they  go  and  lug 
rocks  to  those  who  lay  the  stones 
in  place.  The  stonemasons  them- 
selves are  men  hired  in  the   vil- 


lage to  do  that  particular  work. 
But  Fra  Elbertus  himself  and  St. 
Jerome  Roycroft  are  not  unskill- 
ed handlers  of  stone. 
There  is  little  monotony  about 
Roycroft  labor,  though  some  may 
think  that  the  elaborate  illumina- 
tion of  one  initial  letter  after  an- 
other through  the  whole  edition 
of  a  book  is  the  most  monoto- 
nous thing  in  the  world.  The  shop 
is  like  a  play  house.  Though  the 
architecture  must  be  described  as 
simple,  there  are  queer  little 
windows  and  cubby-holes  and 
unexpected  places.  Climbing  a 
stair  from  one  room  to  another, 
one  finds  himself  on  a  landing 
from  which  there  are  glimpses  of 
picturesque  corners  of  the  work- 
room. Every  room  is  light.  The 
walls  are  hung  with  deep-colored 
binding  skins  and  with  harum- 
scarum  caricatures  that  have 
been  reproduced  in  the  PHILIS- 
TINE, or  with  richly  colored 
tapestry.  In  one  corner  is  the 
life-size  bust  of  Fra  Elbertus 
modeled  by  St.  Jerome  Roycroft. 
On  a  table  between  two  workers 
lies  a  bronze  cast  of  the  clasped 
hands  of  the  Brownings.  Play  & 
work  and  art  are  indiscriminately 
thrown  together. 

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Hancing  inside  the  glass  of  the 
front  door  of  the  shop  —  the 
great  wrought  iron  hinges  of  the 
door  and  step  railings  were  ham- 
mered out  by  St.  Jerome — is  a 
sign  illuminated  gloriously  on  a 
black  card,  requesting  that  "visi- 
tors will  kindly  ask  AH  Baba  to 
check  their  wheels." 
Elbert  Hubbard  calls  himself  an 
anarchist.  By  way  of  proving  it 
he  spells  it  "  anarkist."  Govern- 
ment and  discipline  are  quite  in- 
consistent with  his  theory  of  life. 
The  Roycrofters  have  no  rules 
and  no  foremen.  But  somehow 
they  all  get  to  work  at  the  same 
time  every  morning  and  take  the 
same  hours  for  luncheon  and  rec- 
reation— yes,  for  recreation.  Il- 
luminating is  confining  work,  as 
is  bookbinding,  and  for  a  quarter 
hour  each  morning  and  afternoon 
everybody  goes  out  into  the  yard 
and  plays  tag,  or  engages  in 
other  fresh-air  relaxation. 
No  more  assorted  eccentrics  were 
ever  gathered  under  a  roof  than 
the  leading  spirits  of  the  Roy- 
crofters. Asked  how  he  collected 
them  Hubbard  will  say:  "Oh 
they  blew  in,"  or  '•  Ali  Baba 
knew  of  them  and  advised  they 
be  sent  for."  Ali  Baba  is  a  great 

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man.  There  is  Bome  reason  to  be- 
lieve he  regards  himself,  and  not 
without  reason  perhaps,  as  the 
only  sane  man  associated  with 
the  Roycrofters.  He  was  Hub- 
bard's hired  man  in  the  early  days 
of  the  stock  farm.  He  is  a  bard- 
headed,  broad  shouldered,  griz- 
zled farmer  on  whom  has  grown  a 
great  sense  of  responsibility  as 
he  has  pondered  on  the  seeming 
irresponsibility  with  which  he  is 
surrounded.  These  people  are 
good  to  him.  They  teem  to  re- 
gard him  highly  and  he  is  very 
fond  of  them,  but  as  he  goes 
about  his  multifarious  businesses 
Ali  Baba  seems  to  be  looking 
over  his  shoulder  all  the  time,  as 
if  anticipating  a  violent  outbreak. 
The  PHILISTINE  is  full  of  al- 
leged quotations  from  his  phi- 
losophy of  life  and  literary  views. 
These  things  do  not  worry  Ali 
Baba.  He  simply  eyes  the  Roy- 
crofters placidly  and  reserves 
judgment.  It  pleases  Fra  El- 
bertus  to  speak  of  Ali  Baba  as 
a  most  convivial  person.  When  a 
visitor  is  asked  to  have  a  drink 
from  the  Roycroft  cask  labelled 
"  inspiration,"  Ali  Baba  is  sum- 
moned to  lift  glasses  with  him, 
as  Hubbard  does  not   drink.  Ali 


Baba's  comments  on  the  world 
as  it  goes  about  him  are  a  great 
joy  to  the  Roycrofters,  and  his 
doings  are  fully  reported  at  every 
meal  hour.  His  strongest  point  is 
authority.  AH  Baba  cannot  dig  a 
post-hole  until  he  has  summoned 
with  commanding  gestures  and 
•'  here,  you's  "  all  the  workmen 
in  sight  to  stand  around  and  hold 
tools  and  measuring  tapes,  while 
he  does  the  work  himself.  Ali 
Baba's  name  is  of  uncertain  der- 
ivation. Some  of  the  Roycrofters 
say  that  Denslow,  the  artist, 
caught  Ali  Baba's  fingers  in  bis 
tobacco  jar  and  so  gave  him  the 
name  of  the  plunderer  of  the  forty 
thieves.  But  it  is  n't  safe  to  accept 
as  gospel  anything  a  Roycrofter 
says  about  Ali  Baba. 
Samuel  Warner,  F.  R.  S.  A.— 
if  you  ask  a  Roycrofter  if  the  in- 
itials stand  for  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Society  of  Artists,  he  will 
seem  politely  surprised  and  say 
he  never  heard  of  such  an  organ- 
ization— came  as  near  blowing  in 
as  ever  any  one  did.  He  came  to 
East  Aurora  on  his  way  to  no- 
where. He  was  in  hard  luck.  He 
stayed  with  the  Roycrofters  for  a 
night  and  before  he  knew  it  he 
was   a   Roycrofter   himself.  It  is 


be  who  sets  the  color  schemes 
for  the  illuminators  and  designs 
the  title  pages  and  the  borders 
and  the  bookplates  of  the  beauti- 
ful Roycroft  books.  He  has  an 
art  class  in  the  evening,  to  which 
all  the  Roycrofters  are  welcome, 
and  he  teaches  them  and  works 
with  them  with  the  utmost  pains. 
Lately  the  Roycrofters  have  tak- 
en to  designing  bookplates  to  or- 
der. "  Sammy  the  Artist  "  de- 
signs them. 

The  girls,  by  whom  the  artist's 
plans  of  decoration  are  carried 
into  effect,  are  all  of  them  from 
the  village  of  East  Aurora  &  the 
country  roundabout.  It  was  made 
known  that  there  was  work  for 
the  girls  to  do  at  the  Roycroft 
shop  and  that  good  wages  would 
be  paid.  As  many  as  there  were 
room  for  were  employed  and  set 
to  work.  If  a  girl  sh  jwed  aptitude 
in  lettering  or  coloring  she  was  en- 
couraged and  opportunities  given 
her  to  develop  as  much  artistic 
originality  as  was  in  her.  If  she 
was  clumsy  and  without  taste, 
some  other  work  in  the  shop  was 
found  her.  Every  girl  in  the  shop 
has  had  a  chance  to  find  her 
place.  Some  of  them  have  de- 
veloped  remarkably.   The    free- 

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hatid  extra  illumination  of  some 
of  the  costliest  Roycroft  books 
is  now  left  in  the  hands  of  the 
girls  who  never  saw  a  water- 
color  box  until  three  years  ago. 
A  few  of  these  girls  were  not 
much  thought  of  in  East  Aurora 
before  the  days  of  the  Roycroft. 
Their  employment  at  the  shop 
did  not  lessen  the  stony  glare  of 
New  England  suspicion  with 
which  the  East  Aurora  clergy  re- 
garded Elbert  Hubbard  from  the 
beginning.  Since  they  have  been 
doing  the  Roycroft  work,  and 
their  minds  have  been  always 
occupied  with  beautiful  things, 
many  remarkable  changes  have 
been  made  in  them  and  in  the 
trend  of  East  Aurora  opinion. 
These  are  things,  however,  the 
visitor  must  find  out  for  himself. 
The  Roycrofters  will  not  talk 
about  them,  and  they  are  not 
before  the  world  as  social  re- 
formers. From  Hubbard,  in  his 
tattered  black  felt  hat  and  blue 
flannel  shirt  and  corduroy  knick- 
erbockers, to  the  dirtiest  helper 
about  the  presses,  there  is  an  un- 
broken merry  good  fellowship. 
Sometimes  the  joking  is  a  little 
severe — as  when  a  ragged  sole- 
less  pair  of  shoes  were  hung  from 

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the  rafters  at  a  level  with  the 
visitor's  eyes  with  the  label, 
"  These  are  the  shoes  that  Sam- 
my the  Artist  wore  when  he  came 
to  the  Roycroft  Shop." 
"  Sammy  did  n't  like  that,"  says 
Fra  Elbertus,  "  and  said  they 
must  come  down.  Sammy  is 
Dutch  and  has  occasional  lapses 
into  seriousness.  But  the  shoes 
stayed,  because  they  tell  a  better 
story  than  any  that  has  ever 
been  printed  in  the  shop,  &  now 
Sammy  is  proud  of  them." 
Much  of  the  creative  genius  of 
the  shop  outside  of  literature  is 
derived  from  St.  Jerome  Roy- 
croft. His  impulse  for  the  plastic 
arts  had  to  struggle  through  an 
environment  of  blacksmithing. 
St.  Jerome  is  only  twenty-four 
and  has  a  chest  like  a  beer  keg 
and  the  profile  of  an  American 
Indian.  His  black  hair  is  as 
straight  as  so  much  wire  and  he 
lets  it  grow  down  to  his  collar 
and  there  chops  it  off  short  and 
square.  He  turned  to  stonecut- 
ting  from  blacksmithing.  It  soon 
became  apparent  that  he  could 
cut  stone  artistically  and  just 
then  Hubbard  found  him.  He  has 
never  studied  in  an  art  school  in 
his  life.  He  models  portrait  busts 


RoycrofL   Blacksmiths. 


and  bas-reliefs  that  are  accept- 
ed as  remarkable  work  by  many 
competent  judges  who  have  seen 
them.  He  chisels  marble  copies 
of  his  own  clay  models.  Then 
there  is  sober,  sedate  &  quiet  Ele- 
anor Douglas,  who  throws  pottery 
on  the  wheel  and  has  discovered 
that  East  Aurora  clay  is  suscept- 
ible of  such  treatment  that  it 
may  be  brought  out  of  the  kiln 
with  a  beautiful  color  unknown 
to  other  pottery. 

^  When  andirons  were  want- 
ed for  the  big  fireplaces  in  the 
shop,  Josh  went  to  the  village 
blacksmith's  shop  and  hammered 
them  out,  with  the  aid  of  the 
blacksmith.  A  visitor  saw  and 
coveted  them.  They  were  sold 
to  him  at  a  good  big  price.  Since 
then  the  blacksmith's  shop  has 
been  annexed  by  the  Roycrofters 
&  andirons  have  become  a  Roy- 
croft  product.  The  sign  of  the 
Roycroft,  before  the  bad  boys 
pelted  it  with  apples  so  it  had  to 
be  taken  down,  was  the  hippo- 
campus or  sea  horse.  The  Roy- 
croft andirons  are  generally  big 
sprawling  sea  horses. 
The  East  Aurora  carpenter  and 
cabinet  maker  spent  his  life  until 
lately,  tinkering.  The  Roycroft- 


ers went  to  him  and  ordered  a 
table  made  after  the  William 
Morris  fashion,  circular  and  some 
eight  feet  in  diameter,  with  six 
or  eight  great  plain  legs,  and  all 
polished  oak.  The  carpenter 
doubted,  but  he  took  the  order  and 
filled  it.  When  he  heard  that  a 
visitor  to  the  shop  had  paid  $75 
for  the  table  after  it  was  made,  he 
grumbled  no  more.  Now  when 
he  can  be  spared  from  the  build- 
ings, he  makes  tables,  chairs 
and  plain  oak  pedestals  for  stat- 
uary. These  things  are  all  taken 
away  by  visitors,  who  did  not 
come  there  with  any  idea  of  buy- 
ing them. 

The  Roycrofters,  perhaps  quit* 
naturally,  do  not  mind  being  ex- 
hibited. It  is  part  of  the  joke  to 
them  ;  perhaps  it  is  the  only  part 
in  the  joke  Ali  Baba  really  shares. 
There  is  a  most  gracious  young 
woman  whose  task  is  to  rise 
from  her  illuminating  and  walk 
through  the  shop  with  each  visi- 
tor that  comes.  She  points  out  the 
greater  celebrities,  and  if  they 
are  not  busy  introduces  them.  It 
is  lots  of  fun  to  see  St.  Jerome 
Roycroft  clasp  his  steel  paw 
about  that  of  an  over-enthusiast 
who  thinks  that  because  the  Roy- 

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croftera  choose  to  live  in  a  buck- 
wheat village  they  can  be  reck- 
lessly jollied.  Each  frucst  is  asked 
to  register,  and  as  a  parting  gift 
to  accept  a  catalog  of  the  late 
Roycroft  books.  This  catalog  is 
just  as  carefully  printed  as  any 
other  Roycroft  book.  It  is  illum- 
inated and  printed  in  colors.  But 
you  must  go  to  East  Aurora  to 
get  it.  In  going  through  the  shop 
the  visitor  will  find,  tucked  under 
stairways  and  in  odd  corners,  cots 
neatly  covered  with  old  fashion- 
ed patchwork  counterpanes.  He 
is  informed  that  many  of  the 
young  men  sleep  in  the  building. 
The  big  fireplace  in  the  first 
building  is  the  gathering  place 
at  night  for  all  the  men  Roycroft- 
ers.  Sometimes  the  girls  come. 
It  is  the  counsel  fire.  Hawthorne, 
the  red-headed  Buraar,  whose 
work  hours  in  the  shop  are  from 
six  in  the  morning  until  mid- 
night, and  who  eats  at  Hubbard's 


house  next  door  and  sleeps  in  the 
shop  when  he  is  not  working  ; 
and  St.  Jerome  (at  these  coun- 
sels called  St.  Geronimo);  and 
Sammy  the  Artist,  and  Kinder, 
the  binder  who  came  from  Ger- 
many, because  there  were  none 
capable  of  his  work  in  this  coun- 
try ;  and  Bertie,  the  oldest  Hub- 
bard boy,  who  is  sixteen  and  is 
the  only  engineer  and  electric- 
ian that  has  ever  strung  a  wire 
or  bolted  a  shaft  in  the  establish- 
ment ;  and  Bertie's  pal,  who  was 
bound  fop  the  Reform  School 
when  Hubbard  took  him  —  all 
these  sit  and  talk  before  the  fire 
with  the  master  for  hours  togeth- 
er. Sometimes  they  are  quiet, 
and  sometimes  the  roar  of  their 
laughter  can  be  heard  out  on  the 
Main  street  above  the  rattle  of 
stray  wagons  that  bump  down  the 
corduroy  road  to  the  railroad 
station. 


The  Roycrofters  have  no  agents  or  traveling 

salesmen ;  they  do  not  sell  their  books  thru 

stores,  neither  do  they  advertise  in  Munsey's. 

Send  a  postal  card  and  any  books  we  have  in  stock 
will  be  sent  you  on  approval. 


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A  Rovcroft  Artist 


Some  extracts  from  Utters  from  a  few  well- 
hnown  Book-Lo\>er9 : 

TTES,  I  have  been  to  the  Sun-Rising ;  I  have  seen  Ali  Baba,  Saint 
*  Gerome  and  Fra  Elbertus  at  work  ;  I  have  seen  the  place  where 
country  boys  and  girls  are  given  an  education  in  art,  music  and  liter- 
ature— each  according  to  his  power  to  absorb — and  it  all  seems  to  me 
the  nearest  approach  to  Utopia  that  has  yet  been  realized. 

MAUDE  ADAMS. 


TT* HE  style  in  which  you  have  reprinted  "  Sesame  and   Lilies  "  is 

very  pleasing  to  Mr.  Ruskin.  He  wishes  me  to  say  that  this 

beautiful  book  goes  far  in  atoning  for  the  typographical  sins  that 

have  been  inflicted  on  his  writings  by  certain  American  publishers. 

JAMES  HULL  LIPTON, 
Coniston,  Jan.  5,  1898.  Secretary. 


'T'HE  beautiful  Roycroft  book  just  reached  me  this  morning,  and  I 
write  at  once  to  tell  you  that  we  are  all  greatly  pleased  with  it. 
Will  you  hand  the  enclosed  check  to  the  Bursar,  with  the  request 
that  I  be  enrolled  as  a  "  Life  Member."  I  am  not  quite  sure  that  I 
shall  live  ninety-nine  years,  but  surely  such  books  as  you  make 
must  conduce  to  longevity. 

Faithfully  yours, 
Washington,  Sept.  27,  1898.  JOHN  HAY. 


T  SEND  you  love  and  blessings  for  the  noble  volume.  It  seems  like 

*  a  breath  from  some  old  Scriptorium  of  the  Middle  Ages,  when  the 

making  of  books  was  a  holy  service,  not  a  speculation. 

CHARLES  WARREN  STODDARD. 
The  Bungalow. 

Washington,  D.  C,  March  6,  1898. 

27 


HER  MAJESTY,  the  Queen,  directs  me  to  express  to  Mr. 
Hubbard  tho  pleasure  she  has  had  in  the  beautiful  copy  of 
"  Sonnets  from  the  Portuguese."  The  combination  of  paper,  typog- 
raphy, illuminations  and  binding  is  so  harmonious  that  the  work  has 
been  given  a  place  among  the  Queen's  intimate  book  treasures. 

HELEN  BARSTOW, 
Windsor  Castle,  Juns  i8,  1897.  Assistant  to  the  Librarian. 

T  HAND  you  cheque  for  the  six  books  that  have  been  safely  re- 
"*■  ceived  and  sent  on  the  way  to  make  six  dear  friends  happy.  You 
must  send  me  two  copies  of  each  one  of  the  Roycroft  books  as  is- 
sued, to  my  London  address.  I  have  just  learned  where  East  Aurora 
really  is,  and  am  quite  provoked  to  think  that  I  spent  all  last  week  at 
Buffalo  and  did  not  go  out  to  see  "  bow  you  do  it." 

ELLEN  TERRY. 
Pittsburg,  Dec.  4,  1897. 

T^OR  the  check  enclosed  please  send  me  another  •'  Rubaiyat.".  The 
"*•  loving  care  you  bestow  on  your  work  I  hope  ie  not  without  its 
due  reward. 

JOHN  L.  STODDARD. 
New  York,  July  27,  1898. 

T  SAT  in  the  waiting  room  of  the  Central  Station  at  Buffalo  &  heard 
■*•  the  gate-man  call  "  All  aboard  for  Ebenezer,  Elma,  Arcade,  Oleaui, 
and  EAST  AURORA  !  "  A  great  throb  came  to  my  heart  at  mention 
of  the  name  and  I  repeated  it  softly  to  myself,  "  East  Aurora,  East 
Aurora,  East  Aurora  !  "  Does  the  old  gate-man  in  the  faded  blue  and 
brass  buttons  know  the  sacredness  of  his  mission  in  calling  men  and 
women  to  arise  and  go  to  East  Aurora  ? 

Yes,  go  to  East  Aurora  now,  before  the  throng  goes.  Go,  for  some 
day  you  will  have  to,  for  East  Aurora  will  be  a  place  of  pilgrimage 
like  Bayreuth,  Concord  and  Weimar.  In  East  Aurora  they  do  not 
merely  talk  about  things — they  do  things. 

ISABEL  IRVING. 

a8 


rHE  Roycroft  books  are  a  great  pleasure  to  me  •  •  • 
THEODORE  ROOSEVELT. 
Executive  Mansion,  Albany,  May  6,  i8gg. 


T^HE  volume  came  in  good  order.  Just  to  hold  and  caress  such  a 
book  is  a  joy. 

LAURENCE  HUTTON. 


New  York,  Feb.  15,  1898. 


TTOURS  is  a  classic  touch  in  book-making.  You  put  the  best  inside 
^    the  covers,  and  the  plainness  of  the  bindings  seems  to  enhance 
the  delight  when  one  turns  the  leaves. 

NATHAN  HASKELL  DOLE. 
Jamaica  Plains,  March  13,  iSgg. 


T  AM  spending  a  week  here  with  my  friend,  Mrs.  Ole  Bull,  and  must 
tell  you  of  the  delight  that  the  Roycroft  books  have  given  us  *  *  • 

FRANCES  E.  WILLARD. 
Cambridge,  May  8th,  1897. 

TTARIOUS  Kelmscott  books  are  mine,  and  I  am  sure  that  Roy- 
'     croft  publications  do  not  suffer  any  in  comparison.  Your  books 
show  a  distinct  personality,  and  the  small  imperfections  I  find,  only 
add  to  their  charm,  like  a  patch  on  beauty's  face. 

HAROLD  FREDERIC. 
London,  April  2,  i8g8. 

TT  IS  probably  true  that  Moses  had  no  Christian  name ;  but  in  any 
*  event  the  dress  you  have  given  this  book  is  a  delight  to  the  eye.  I 
would  be  proud  to  have  sorme  little  thing  of  my  own  come  forth  from 
the  Roycroft  Shop. 

I.  ZANGWILL. 
London,  December  i,  1897. 

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TWTR.  E.  S.  WILLARD  sends  greetings  to  the  Roycrofters  and 
■■"'■*•  begs  that  they  will  record  his  permanent  London  address  and 
send  him  one  each  of  their  books  as  fast  as  issued.  Mr.  Willard  will 
not  be  so  captious  as  to  criticise  the  "  Ruskin  and  Turner"  just  re- 
ceived— let  the  fact  that  he  encloses  check  be  its  own  comment. 
Toronto,  Jan.  lo,  1898. 

T  HAVE  seen  some  of  your  books,  and  will  ask  you  to  send  me, 
■*"  care  Southern  Hotel,  one  copy  each  of  the  publications  you  have 
in  stock.  MODJESKA. 

January  5,  1898.  (Countess  Bozenta.) 

TTOUR  book-making  is  most  quaint  and  pleasing,  withal.  I   am 
*    glad  to  say  that  my  library  holds  several  Roycroft  volumes. 

E.  C.  STEDMAN. 
Bronxville,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  4,  1897. 

T^HE  Roycroft  books  are  a  delight,  and  I  am  showing  them  to  my 
friends  with  intent  to  prove  that  the  old  world  moves.  And  in 
moving  backward  to  the  time  of  those  Early  Venetian  Printers  (who 
made  such  beautiful  books  while  Columbus  was  discovering  Amer- 
ica), you  have  done  well.  I  cannot  say  you  have  improved  on  the 
Venetians,  but  you  have  nearly  equaled  them. 

W.  E.  GLADSTONE. 
Hawarden,  Sept.  18,  1897. 

TT'OUR  politics  seem  a  trifle  scrambled  and  your  theology  no  bet- 
ter,  yet  I  have  decided  to  chance  your   company  for  a  limited 

time — say  ninety-nine  years. 

THOMAS  BRACKETT  REED. 
Portland,  Maine,  Sept.  7th,  1899. 

TTOU  will  find,  in  colors,  on  the  Great   Roster  of  Immortals  the 
•*    names  of  the  President,  General  Superintendent,  Traffic  Man- 
ager, General  Freight  Agent,  Superintendent  of  Motive  Power  and 

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Chief  Counsel  of  the  New  York  Central ;  also  the  name  of  the  Chair- 
man of  the  Board,  who  has  recently  been  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate. 

These  are  valiant  Hittites — vouched  for  by  me. 

We  do  not  always  like  the  way  you  carry  off  the  Gates  of  Gaza,  but 
we  read  all  you  write  as  a  sort  of  mental  Martini.  Then  your  books 
are  like  a  sweet  dream   of  Paradise,  beautiful  as  fair  women,  or  the 

cars  on  the  Lake  Shore  Limited. 

GEORGE  H.  DANIELS. 

Grand  Central  Station,  New  York,  Sept.  15,  1899. 

TTAVING  seen  the  Philistine  in  his  lair  and  the  Roycrofters  at 
^  ^  their  work,  Mrs.  Pond  and  I  are  more  in  love  with  Roycroft 
books  than  ever.  I  wonder  if  your  workers  realize  how  much  of  an 
education  they  are  acquiring— and  giving  to  others  ? 

JAMES  B.  POND. 
Everett  House,  New  York,  August  21,  1899. 

T7"OUR  books  come  to  me  as  a  most  agreeable  rest  and  refresh- 
^    ment   in  a  very  busy  life.  I   trust  you  will  not   fail  to  send  me 
copies  in  duplicate  of  all  your  products. 

Chicago,  Jan.  4,  1899.  H.  N.  HIGINBOTHAM. 

LAST  year  I  confined  my  giving  of  Christmas  presents  to  Roy- 
croft books.  This  year  I  intend  to  do  the  same  ;  so  send  me  along 
as  usual  a  dozen  copies  of  each  volume  I  have  checked  from  your 
list.  ALVA  ADAMS. 

Executive  Mansion,  Denver,  Col.,  Nov.  28,  1898. 

TT'OU  seem  to  get  a  lot  of  enjoyment  out  of  your  work;   and  in 
*    these  days  of  hurry  and  rush  and  anxiety,  that  is  much.  I  hope 
you  are  getting  the  reward  you  deserve — and  this  is  a  most  generous 
wish.  THOMAS  WENTWORTH  HIGGINSON. 

Cambridge,  April  6,  '99. 

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A  QUEER  lot  of  folks  you  are  up  there,  but  I  rather  like  you,  and 
■'*'  like  your  work.  I  think  I  '11  pack  up  and  go  and  spend  my  old  age 
with  you,  in  the  Forest  of  Arden,  making  Books  and  Things. 

J.  Q.  A.  WARD. 
New  York  City,  Jan.  x,  iSgg. 

IWrY  admiration  is  profound  for  that  man  who  can  use  material 
■*■""■•  that  no  one  else  wants,  and  out  of  stones  picked  up  in  the  fields 
rear  a  beautiful  temple.  When  he  dedicates  this  temple  as  a  Work- 
Shop  for  the  making  of  beautiful  things,  I  uncover  to  one  who  is 
showing  humanity  bow  to  reach  salvation  by  the  Gospel  of  Work. 

WHITELAW  REID. 
March  ist,  igoo. 

'T'HK  Roy  croft  book  which  I  ordered  is  on  my  table,  and  I  hasten 
^    to  send  check  and  tell  you  how  I  like  its   quaint   and  curious 
flavor.  More  power  to  your  elbow  ! 

F.  HOPKINSON  SMITH. 
February  i8,  igoo. 

rXg  carpets 

The  Old  Fashioned  kind.  Woven  roycroftie 
— stout,  durable,  beautiful — in  East  Aurora  by 
Roycroft  girls  (seventy  years  young).  Rugs  in 
three-yard  lengths,  price  Three  Dollars,  or  in 
quantities  One  Dollar  a  yard.  Address  The 
Roycroft  Shop,  East  Aurora,  New  York. 
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A  B  ook-binder 


LITTLE   JOURNEYS 

to  the  Homes  of  ENGLISH  AUTHORS 

VOLUME  VI— NEW  SERIES 

THIS  book  is  the  first  volume  of  the  JOUR- 
NEYS issued  by  the  Roycrofters,  and  the 
edition  is  NOW  READY  ^  The  book  contains 
the  following  numbers : 

WILLIAM  MORRIS  ROBERT  BURNS 

ROBERT  BROWNING  JOHN  MILTON 

ALFRED  TENNYSON  SAMUEL  JOHNSON 

Portraits  in  photogravure  on  Japan  paper  of  each 
subject,  text  on  Roycroft  water-mark,  hand-made 
paper,  initials  &  title  page  hand  illumined,  bound 
in  limp  chamois — silk  lined,  gilt  top.  Edition  lim- 
ited to  one  thousand  copies,  numbered  &  signed 
by  the  author. 

Price  of  volume  is  Three  Dollars. 
Subscribers  who  already  have  the  above  men- 
tioned booklets  in  paper  covers,  may,  if  they 
choose,  return  the  loose  numbers  to  us  by  mail 
with  remittance  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents,  for 
binding,  and  the  volume  will  go  forward. 

THE  ROYCROFTERS, 
East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 


A  MESSAGE 
TO  GARCIA 

First   printed   in   the    PHILISTINE   for 
March,  1899,  caused  the  edition  to  be  ex- 
hausted within  three  days  after  publica- 
tion. It  was  then  reissued  by  Mr.  George 
H.  Daniels  of  the  New  York  Central  Rail- 
road, who  has  issued  over  a  million  copies 
of  the   preachment.     A  close    calculation 
shows  it  has  been  reprinted  about  eleven 
million  times.  It  has  been  translated  and 
published  in  six  different  languages.  There 
are  still  calls  for  the  booklet,  and  we  have 
them,  on  Holland  hand-made  paper,  with 
one  illumined  initial,  price  loc  each,  or  in 
quantities,  say  ten  dollars  per  hundred.  A 
few  copies  numbered  and  signed  by  the 
author,  bound  in  limp  chamois,  satin-lined, 
illumined  title-page,  one  dollar  per  copy. 
Address  the  Bursar  of 

THE  ROYCROFT  SHOP 
East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 

In  the  Mailing  Department. 


LITTLE  to  the  T)omcQ  of 

JOURNEYS        mzjyoKS 

VOLUME    VII— NEW    SERIES 

THIS  book  is  the  second  volume  of  the  JOUR- 
NEYS issued  by  the  Roycrofters,  and  the 
edition  is  NOW  READY  ti^  The  book  contains 
the  following  numbers : 

THOS.  B.  MACAULAY  ROBERT  SOUTHEY 

LORD  BYRON  SAM'L  T.  COLERIDGE 

JOSEPH  ADDISON  BENJAMIN  DISRAELI 

Portraits  in  photogravure  on  Japan  paper  of  each 
subject,  text  on  Roycroft  water-mark,  hand-made 
paper,  initials  &  title  page  hand  illumined,  bound 
in  limp  chamois — silk  lined,  gilt  top.  Edition  lim- 
ited to  one  thousand  copies,  numbered  &  signed 
by  the  author. 

Price  of  volume  is  Three  Dollars. 
Subscribers  who  already  have  the  above  men- 
tioned booklets  in  paper  covers,  may,  if  they 
choose,  return  the  loose  numbers  to  us  by  mail 
with  remittance  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents,  for 
binding,  and  thfe  volume  will  go  forward. 

THE^  ROYCROFTERS, 

Bast  Aurora,  N.  Y. 


AT  the  AUCTION  SALE,  held  in 
-^^  New   York,  March    1900,  of  the 

Library  of  the  late  Augustin 

Daly, 

ROYCROFT  BOOKS  sold 

as  follows: 

Namei  oT  Books  and  Auction  Sale  price*. 

Origfinal 
price. 

THE  PHILISTINE,  Vols.    1-7,    last 
three  unbound,  $3.50  per  vol., 

$34.50 

350 

RUBAIYAT,  No.  763    of  920    copies, 
green  chamois, 

7-50 

2.00 

RUBAIYAT,  Half  gray  levant, 

6.50 

2.00 

RUSKIN-TURNER,  inscribed, 

16.00 

5-00 

ECCLESIASTES, 

10.00 

2.00 

ART  AND  LIFE,  Japan  paper, 

7-50 

5.00 

ON  GOING  TO  CHURCH, 

3.00 

1. 00 

BOOK-WORM,  Autographs  of  Irving 
Browne  and  Elbert  Hubbard,   one 
of  590  copies, 

16.00 

5.00 

UPLAND    PASTURES,   illuminated 
copy,  9  aquarelles. 

21.00 

7-50 

SESAME    AND   LILIES,   one  of  40 
copies, 

THE  LEGACY,  Two  Vols., 

20.00 
12.00 

10.00 
3  00 

JOB,  One  of  350  copies, 
DESERTED  VILLAGE, 

12.00 
15.00 

5  00 
10.00 

IN  MEMORIAM, 

SONNETS    FROM    THE    PORTU- 
GUESE,   Autograph    letter    from 
publisher  enclosed, 

FAMOUS  WOMEN,  De  luxe. 

750 

18.50 
1300 

2.00 

5-00 
10.00 

SEEMS  TO   ME,  On  Japan  Vellum, 
one  of  40  copies, 

11.00 

10.00 

■ 

■ 

LITTLE  JOURNEYS 

To  the  Homes  of  ENGLISH  AUTHORS 

1 
i 

1 

Series    of    1900 

EDITION     DE    LUXE: 

EACH  BOUND  IN  LIMP  CHAMOIS,  SILK- 
LINED,  WITH  SILK  MARKER,  FRONTIS- 
PIECE    PORTRAIT    IN    PHOTOGRAVURE 
ON  IMPERIAL  JAPAN.  HAND  ILLUMINED, 
SIGNED  &  NUMBERED  BY  THE  AUTHOR. 

The  twelve  volumes   .   .    $10.00 
Single  numbers i  .00 

THE   EDITION    IS    LIMITED    TO 
1,000  COPIES  OF  EACH  SUBJECT 

The  ROYCROFTERS  at  EAST 
AURORA,  Erie  Co.,  New  York 

AT  the  AUCTION  SALE,  held 
^^  Friday,  April  20th,  at  the  Rooms 
of  John  Anderson,  Jr.,  34  West  30th 
Street,  New  York  City,  the  following 
named  ROTCROFT  BOOKS  were 
disposed  of  at  the  prices  mentioned: 


Titles  of  Books  and  Auction  Sale  prices. 


s. 

Original 

price 

$25.00 

2.00 

7.00 

2.00 

18.00 

5.00 

13.00 

5.00 

21.00 

5  00 

5-50 

2.00 

21.00 

5.00 

13.00 

5-00 

15.00 

5.00 

450 

2.00 

7-25 

2.50 

10.25 

2.00 

10.00 

5.00 

6.00 

1. 00 

THE  SONG  OF  SONGS, 
BOOK  OF  ECCLESIASTES, 
RUSKIN  AND  TURNER, 
SONNETS  FROM  THE  PORTU- 
GUESE, 
THE  BOOK  OF  JOB, 
LOVE  BALLADS  OF  THE  XVIth 

CENTURY, 
IN  THE  TRACK  OF  THE  BOOK- 
WORM, 
UPLAND  PASTURES, 
THE  DESERTED  VILLAGE, 
HAND  AND  BRAIN, 
AS  IT  SEEMS  TO  ME, 
IN  MEMORIAM, 
SESAME  AND  LILIES, 
THE  PHILISTINE,  per  volume. 


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